MUCH RAIN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AND WHEN WE CAN WRAP IT UP. THANKS VERY MUCH, TOM. OUR OTHER BIG STORY, BIG ELECTION IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. 93-YEAR-OLD JOHN LAND OF APOPKA WHO HAS BEEN THE CITY'S MAYOR FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS IS FACING HIS TOUGHEST TEST YET AND NOW HE IS HEADED INTO A RUNOFF. HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE APOPKA MAYOR ELECTION. LAND FINISHED SECOND TO APOPKA COMMISSIONER JOE KILLSHEIMER, WHO 2354 VOTES, 48% OF THE VOTE. LAND HAD 1905, 38% OF THE VOTE. CANDIDATE GLENN CHANCEY HAT 10%, GREG PH PHILIPS 4%. IT IS NOT OVER YET. JOHN LAND COULD CONTINUE TO BE THE LONGEST RUNNING MAYOR IN THE COUNTRY IF HE WINS THIS RUNOFF, RIGHT? THAT'S RIGHT. BUT WE NEED TO POINT OUT THAT MORE APOPKA CITIZENS WHO WALKED THROUGH THESE DOORS TO VOTE ACTUALLY CHOSE MAYOR LAND'S OPPONENT. BUT SINCE NEITHER CANDIDATE GOT AT LEAST 50% OF THE VOTE, THERE WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE ANOTHER ELECTION HELD RIGHT HERE LITTLE LESS THAN A MONTH FROM NOW. AT AGE 93, AMERICA'S OLDEST MAYOR NEEDED A LITTLE HELP WALKING UP TO THE PODIUM TO ADDRESS SUPPORTERS TONIGHT. THE WORLD WAR II VETERAN SAYS HE HAS THE FIGHT IN HIM TO WIN AN HISTORIC 20TH TERM AS APOPKA'S MAYOR. WITH THE ECONOMY GETTING BETTER, WE HAVE GONE THROUGH A BAD ECONOMY. I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE ON ANOTHER FOUR YEARS. WE ARE THRILLED WITH THE OUTCOME TONIGHT. JOE KILLSHEIME ARE WILL CHALLENGE LAND. HE POINTS OUT THAT A MAJORITY OF VOTERS WHO WAITED IN LINE OUTSIDE THIS POLLING PLACE TODAY CAST THEIR BALLOTS FOR CANDIDATES OTHER THAN MAYOR LAND. WELL, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW DIRECTION. THE MAYOR HAS BEEN THE MAYOR FOR 60 YEARS. AND PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR CHANGE. LAND WHO HAS ONLY LOST ONE MAYORAL ELECTION SINCE 1949 HAS LED APOPKA FROM A QUIET FARM TOWN TO THE SECOND LARGEST CITY IN ORANGE COUNTY. HE INSISTS HE'S THE RIGHT PERSON FOR APOPKA'S FUTURE. BUT IT'S BEEN GREAT, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO WORK TOMORROW AND I'VE GOT A GREAT TEAM AND WE'RE GOING TO WIN. ANOTHER BIG RACE IN OW APOPKA TONIGHT WAS FOR CITY COMMISSION SEAT THAT'S BEEN HELD FOR THE PAST 18 YEARS BY MARILYN MCQUEEN. SHE MADE HEADLINES RECENTLY FOR FACEBOOK POST IN WHICH SHE SAID HER OPPONENT WAS, QUOTE, NOT A CHRISTIAN. WELL, THE INCUMBENT WAS BEAT TONIGHT. MIKE, THERE WAS A RECORD TURNOUT FOR TONIGHT'S ELECTION IN APOPKA. IT SOUNDS LIKE IT WAS A PRETTY BUSY NIGHT. RECORD TURNOUT FOR MAYORAL RACE, YES. NEARLY 5,000 OF APOPKA'S 26,000 REGISTERED VOTERS CAST BALLOT IN THIS. THAT WAS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE LAST TIME THERE WAS A BIG MAYORAL ELECTION ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO. SO PEOPLE REALLY INTO THIS THIS TIME.

APOPKA, Fla. -

America's oldest mayor will be facing perhaps the biggest challenge in his 61-year political career when takes on challenger Joe Kilsheimer during a runoff election April 8.

John Land, 93, is hoping to win a 20th term as Apopka's mayor. But in Tuesday's election, Kilsheimer led with 48 percent of the vote. Land took 38 percent, with Glen Chancy taking 10 percent and Gregg Phillips 4 percent.

Since nobody received 50 percent of the vote, the law requires a runoff election between Kilsheimer and Land.

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"It's been great," Land told a crowd of cheering supporters after Tuesday's election results were announced. "We have to go to work tomorrow. We've got a great team and we're gonna win. With the economy getting better, I'd like to continue on another four years."

Kilsheimer, a public relations strategist and Apopka city commissioner, pointed out that majority of voters who turned out for Tuesday's election cast their ballots for candidates other than Land.

"People are looking for a new direction," said Kilsheimer. "The mayor has been mayor for 60 years. People are looking for change"

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